Artificial bait.



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{Appiication filed July 1, 1902.)

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time ra'rae EMANUEL P. MANTZ, OF FREDERICK, MARYLAND.

ARTIFICIAL BAIT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 716,451, dated December23, 1902.

Application filed July 1, 1902. Serial No, 114,005. 'No en/l t- .To aZZwhom, it may concern.-

Be it known that LEMANUEL PETER MANTZ, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing at Frederick, in the county of Frederick and State ofMaryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inArtificial Bait; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make anduse thesame, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, and to figures ofreference marked thereon, which forms a part of this specification.

My invention relates to artificial bait, and has for its object theimprovement in its construction that will be hereinafter described, andparticularly pointed out in the claims.

The accompanying drawing shows in elevation, partly in section, anartificial bait embodying my invention.

The line is attached to the eye 1 of the swivel 2, and the other eye 3of the swivel is connected to the loop 4 of the main wire 5, whichpasses through the body of the bait. On the wire 5 is a metal cap 6,preferably, though not necessarily, hemispherical, whose edges arecrimped to clench the larger end of the tapered colored felt bodyportion 7, formed around the wire 5. On the lower end of this wire, justbeyond the end of the body 7, is another loop 8, and in this loop issocured the loop or eye 9 of the hooks 10. Below the eye 9 on the shanksof the hooks are secured the colored feathers 11. Covering the joint 8 9is arubber or otherflexible tube 12, the object of which is to hold thehooks substantially in alinement with the body 7 during trolling, yetallowing a certain degree of motion, at the same time giving the hookssufficient freedom of motion to be deflected sidewise should the fishnibble or touch it and allow it to be immediately brought back intoalinement.

Between the cap 6 and the loop 4E on the wire 5 is a Washer 13,preferably, though not necessarily, loose on the wire 5, and betweenthis washer 13 and the loop 4 is a yoke 14:, the

wire 5 passing through perforations 15 in its arms. This yoke passesthrough a perforation 16 in a spoon 17, preferably, though notnecessarily, colored on the under side and nickel-plated on the upperside and has a curled or turned-up portion 18. This curled or turned-upportion is at an angle or diagonal to the medial line a b of the spoon.

I am aware that double-winged spoons with a curled edge have heretoforebeen made having propeller motion and rotatable about their centers; butby my structure the yoke 1 1 is capable of permitting the spoon torotate freely around the wire 5 and at the same time allow the spoonwhen the bait is quiet to hang with its colored side close to the body7, while during trolling the curled portion 18 will cause the spoon torevolve around the wire 5 and by reason of the perforations 16 allow thespoon at the same time to turn or wabble about its medial line, thuspermitting the colored under side of the spoon to be flashed indifferent lateral directions during its revolution about the Wire 5.

The yoke 14: may be omitted and the main wire pass directly through theperforations 16, that is made sufficiently large to allow the desiredmotion.

Having thus described my said invention, what I claim as new therein,and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

1. Artificial bait comprising a main Wire, a body portion thereon andhooks hinged to the main wire at the end of the body portion, and aflexible tubular covering over said connection, substantially asdescribed.

2. Artificial bait comprising a main wire, a tapered body portionthereon, a cap crimped on the larger end of said body portion, ayoke,said main Wire passing through both of the arms of said yoke, a spoonhaving a perforation at one end through which said yoke passes, and acurled lower edge at an angle to the medial line of the spoon, hooksjointed to the main wire and flexible covering for the joint,substantially as described. p

3. Artificial bait comprising a main wire, a body portion thereon, ahook or hooks hinged to the main wire at the end of the body portion, aflexible tubular covering over said connection and a spoon having alower portion In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention Ihave signed my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

curled at an angle to its medial line connected EMANUEL P. MANTZ. to themain wire at one end and adapted to rotate about it and the bodyportion, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

Witnesses:

O. ALBERT GILsoN, WILBUR H. DUVALL.

